Space Exploration
Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt
The Dawn spacecraft - which is on a course to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres - has…
Exploring With an Armada of Autonomous Robots
[/caption] JPL has a fun article on their website detailing what future robotic exploration might entail: an armada of robots…
Book Review: Magnificent Desolation, by Buzz Aldrin
[/caption] I very much enjoyed chatting with Buzz Aldrin a couple of weeks ago, for some stories leading up to…
8 Ridiculous Things Bigger Than NASA’s Budget
Why do we explore? In the days of Magellan, Columbus and da Gama, undoubtedly the average person thought it was…
Life Beyond Earth in 10 Years or Less?
[/caption] Illustration credit: Robert McCall Peter Smith feels pretty certain we'll be finding life on Mars within the next decade. …
New Bill Would Extend Shuttle Life, but NASA Doesn’t Need the Time
[/caption] The Senate Budget Committee has given the green light to fund NASA's shuttle program past the end of 2010,…
Russia Will Send Life to Phobos
[/caption] How ironic. Not content with searching for life on Mars, the Russian space agency and the US-based Planetary Society…
Robots Could Prepare Moon Outpost Site
[/caption] A new type of lunar robots is being designed which could help prepare locations on the Moon for human…
The Journey of Space Exploration: Ex-Astronaut Views on NASA
[/caption]It reads like the annual progress report from my first year in university. He lacks direction, he's not motivated and…
Best Space Images of 2008
[/caption] I've been meaning to put together an article highlighting the best space and astronomy pictures of 2008, but I…